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Campaign. they hit multiple targets in multiple cities. they even named the campaign resolute storm. the targets they hit are good, military targets all over the area, and the air base where the american special forces were. i have to say, john, i don't think that the saudis have the capability to develop these targets on their own. so i assume there's a lot of intelligence cooperation going on between saudi arabia and the united states. >> colonel, what happens next? that's the big question, the houthis are backed by iran. do they strike back, do they have the capability of a ground incursion...

We're making deep personnel cuts, but the overall force structure of our military today. we will soon have the smallest army since world war ii, the smallest navy since world war 1. more pertinent to this discussion, the smallest air force, tactical portion of our air force in the history of the air force. so we see -- what we see now is a chaotic world. you've got putin and separatists in ukraine. you've got the gaza strip. let's not forget to mention islamists establishing a caliphate in iraq and syria. we're going to need the military in a dangerous and chaotic world to hold the line for fr...

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Tools in order to safeguard security interests. decreasing a defense budget right now is not the way to be doing it. we don't even have a natural security or military strategy that has been done in the last three to four years. therefore, we don't have a baseline by which we can even determine what our true force structure should be and how we should be exercising it. >> i think most of us would look at the overall picture of the defense budget and say there's got to be waste, fraud, duplication. what is it strategic value of making cuts and if we make some, where should they be made and where...

With iran properly, the last thing we want to do is have trouble in east asia. the navy, the military, we're moving more of our force structure to the pacific and to a person look, because we realize that china is coming on as a dominant power in the region and it has our allies, with whom we have treaty responsibilities, treaty for protection, in case they are attacked. it has them rather nervous. i have got 15 seconds for you to wrap it. >> do you think that we talked -- we use the word bluster before. what's next? is china just rattling the saber. what do you see as next in this? >> i think...